Estación
Biológica de Doñana,

CSIC,

Isla de
La Cartuja,

Avda.
Américo Vespucio s/n

E-41092
Sevilla, Spain

The study
of interactions between plants and animals, and their leading role in the micro
and macroevolutionary processes underlying the astounding variety of morphological,
functional, reproductive and chemical traits associated with the spectacular
diversification of Angiosperms, provide the conceptual basis for our research.

We aim to
contribute to solve the seemingly paradox represented by the strong
historical and ecological constraints on reciprocal adaptations found at the
microevolutionary level, on one side, and the myriad cases that, on the
other side, illustrate reciprocal adaptive radiations between plants and
herbivores, pollinators and seed predators at a macroevolutionary scale.
More recently, we have incorporated also into our research program the study
of microbes potentially consequential for the interactions linking plants
and their animal pollinators, as well as approaches from population and molecular genetics, molecular phylogenetics,
phylogeography, and chemistry.

Current
research projects at our lab include:

Gynodioecy,
herbivory and secondary compounds in Daphne laureola

Reproductive biology and diversification in Iberian species of
Aquilegia